Xianfu Zhang received his M.S. degree in Mathematics from the School of Mathematics Sciences, Shandong Normal University, China, in 1999, and Ph.D. degree in Operational Research and Control from the School of Mathematics, Shandong University, China, in 2005. He joined the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China, in 2012, where he is currently Professor. From September 2008 to February 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. As a Senior Research Assistant, he went to the City University of Hong Kong for short-term research six times from November 2009 to August 2016.  His main research interests include nonlinear systems, large-scale systems, multi-agent systems, and time-delay systems. He received the Natural Science Prize of Shandong Province in 2017, and the Science and Technology Award of Chinese Association of Automation in 2022.He was recognized as the Taishan Scholar Distinguished Professor of Shandong Province in 2019.